Comments on: Are we there yet? http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/ Reality-based commentary on politics and policy in Massachusetts and around the nation Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: joets http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193120 joets Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193120 <p>you should call the AFL-CIO in and have some union reinforcements.  Then you'd have some blackshirts to counter the brownshirts.  Then you could set up a white house email address so the Obama administration can begin compiling a list of dissidents and people to maintain a level of domestic surveillance on.  </p> <p><</p> <p>p>All that's left is to strip these fascistii of their first amendment rights, because after all, it's a blatant distruption of Democracy, and then you can start locking them up without worrying about them squawking about it.  </p> <p><</p> <p>p>With all of them out of the way, you'll have no impediments to a single-party state for years!  With that kind of power, you can dump the 22nd amendment and Obama be president as long as he wants!  After all, only those un-American fascistii would vote against him.  Not that we would worry about it, because they are all in jail!  </p> <p><</p> <p>p>Paradise baby!  </p> you should call the AFL-CIO in and have some union reinforcements.  Then you’d have some blackshirts to counter the brownshirts.  Then you could set up a white house email address so the Obama administration can begin compiling a list of dissidents and people to maintain a level of domestic surveillance on.  

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p>All that’s left is to strip these fascistii of their first amendment rights, because after all, it’s a blatant distruption of Democracy, and then you can start locking them up without worrying about them squawking about it.  

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p>With all of them out of the way, you’ll have no impediments to a single-party state for years!  With that kind of power, you can dump the 22nd amendment and Obama be president as long as he wants!  After all, only those un-American fascistii would vote against him.  Not that we would worry about it, because they are all in jail!  

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]]> By: christopher http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193121 christopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193121 <p>When I first started reading your comment I thought it was JohnD; I was disappointed to see it was you.</p> When I first started reading your comment I thought it was JohnD; I was disappointed to see it was you.

]]> By: edgarthearmenian http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193122 edgarthearmenian Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193122 <p>visits to copy this article.  I thought that both you and Kirth were above that kind of left-wing nuttiness. JoeTS is just giving back the same kind of nonsense that is written in this clip from the blog.</p> visits to copy this article.  I thought that both you and Kirth were above that kind of left-wing nuttiness. JoeTS is just giving back the same kind of nonsense that is written in this clip from the blog.

]]> By: christopher http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193123 christopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193123 <p>...I DON'T think we're there yet, though I was on Salon earlier today and some of this is starting to concern me.</p> …I DON’T think we’re there yet, though I was on Salon earlier today and some of this is starting to concern me.

]]> By: joets http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193124 joets Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193124 <p>that I was merely pointing out silly nuttiness with more silly nuttiness.  It's just as ludicrous a notion that the right is attempting to institute some sort of fascist regime as it is to say that Obama is plotting to make himself president for life.  </p> <p><</p> <p>p>Embrace your inner tin foil hat.</p> that I was merely pointing out silly nuttiness with more silly nuttiness.  It’s just as ludicrous a notion that the right is attempting to institute some sort of fascist regime as it is to say that Obama is plotting to make himself president for life.  

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p>Embrace your inner tin foil hat.

]]> By: somervilletom http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193125 somervilletom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193125 <p>When I see GOP elected officials loudly rejecting rightwing "nuttiness" the way that Democrats reject leftwing nuttiness, I'll be more sympathetic.</p> <p><</p> <p>p>So long as GOP officials enable and encourage garbage like the birthers, they can and should expect to be called out for it.</p> <p><</p> <p>p></p> When I see GOP elected officials loudly rejecting rightwing “nuttiness” the way that Democrats reject leftwing nuttiness, I’ll be more sympathetic.

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p>So long as GOP officials enable and encourage garbage like the birthers, they can and should expect to be called out for it.

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]]> By: joets http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193126 joets Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193126 <p>are democrats.  If you guys had stopped talking about them, they would have fallen off the face of the earth.  </p> <p><</p> <p>p>Just because you continue to invoke their name at every step and insist that they are a paramilitary arm of the GOP doesn't make it so.  </p> are democrats.  If you guys had stopped talking about them, they would have fallen off the face of the earth.  

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p>Just because you continue to invoke their name at every step and insist that they are a paramilitary arm of the GOP doesn’t make it so.  

]]> By: somervilletom http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193127 somervilletom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193127 <p>Instead of "falling off the face of the earth", they instead began disrupting meetings nationwide.</p> <p><</p> <p>p>Just because you claim they're harmless doesn't make it so, either. They <strong>are</strong> causing harm. The rabble-rousers like Rush Limbaugh <strong>are</strong> doing everything they can to fire them up -- just like Bill O'Reilly did everything he could to fire up the anti-abortionists about Dr. Tiller.</p> <p><</p> <p>p>Tell the family of Dr. Tiller that the anti-abortionists are just "nutty", and harmless, and that we should just ignore them.</p> Instead of “falling off the face of the earth”, they instead began disrupting meetings nationwide.

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p>Just because you claim they’re harmless doesn’t make it so, either. They are causing harm. The rabble-rousers like Rush Limbaugh are doing everything they can to fire them up — just like Bill O’Reilly did everything he could to fire up the anti-abortionists about Dr. Tiller.

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p>Tell the family of Dr. Tiller that the anti-abortionists are just “nutty”, and harmless, and that we should just ignore them.

]]> By: lightiris http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193128 lightiris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193128 <p>Congressman Sullivan <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20090808_16_A3_FirstD512105" rel="nofollow">didn't get the memo.</a></p> <p><</p> <p>p></p> <blockquote>Sullivan opened his remarks to the Tulsa Republican Club by questioning Obama's nationality and alluding to an "enemies list" being compiled from e-mails critical of the administration's health care reform proposal. He spent most of the next 40 minutes attacking the president on matters ranging from energy to management. <p>"This is a scary time in Washington," he said. "It's a very frightening time. I see Barack Obama is creating an enemies list of people who oppose this miserable health care plan. I think that's frightening. That's from a guy that can't even show a long-form birth certificate. I think we all ought to be prepared to fight that." </blockquote> <p><</p> <p>p>The notion that only Democrats are talking about this nonsense about Obama's birth certificate is patently false.  Republicans around this nation constantly belch this gibberish to rapt and gullible audiences.  As a Democrat, I think that's a good thing because such behavior will only continue to ensure that the Republican party remains marginalized as the party of loons and kooks.  As a Republican, however, you might want to rescue your party from such lunacy instead of denying its existence.</p> Congressman Sullivan didn’t get the memo.

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Sullivan opened his remarks to the Tulsa Republican Club by questioning Obama’s nationality and alluding to an “enemies list” being compiled from e-mails critical of the administration’s health care reform proposal. He spent most of the next 40 minutes attacking the president on matters ranging from energy to management.

“This is a scary time in Washington,” he said. “It’s a very frightening time. I see Barack Obama is creating an enemies list of people who oppose this miserable health care plan. I think that’s frightening. That’s from a guy that can’t even show a long-form birth certificate. I think we all ought to be prepared to fight that.”

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p>The notion that only Democrats are talking about this nonsense about Obama’s birth certificate is patently false.  Republicans around this nation constantly belch this gibberish to rapt and gullible audiences.  As a Democrat, I think that’s a good thing because such behavior will only continue to ensure that the Republican party remains marginalized as the party of loons and kooks.  As a Republican, however, you might want to rescue your party from such lunacy instead of denying its existence.

]]> By: huh http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193129 huh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193129 <p>Really?</p> Really?

]]> By: mr-lynne http://bluemassgroup.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet/#comment-193130 mr-lynne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16468/#comment-193130 <p>.. Rush.  Bigger conservative audience and pull.</p> .. Rush.  Bigger conservative audience and pull.

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